Category Archives: Media & Journalism

Awards They Couldn’t Accept: The Tragic Irony of Greenwald, Poitras and Snowden

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Keld Bach

When I was honored as a top global thinker last week, 3 of my co-recipients didn’t come. The reason why is chilling. By Jesselyn Radack I was humbled to have dinner in Washington, D.C., last week with an incredible group … Continue reading →

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Edward Snowden: Not TIME’s Person of the Year, but FP’s Global Thinker 2013

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Keld Bach

Edward Snowden, who has become the public face of an international debate over surveillance, tops the list of Foreign Policy‘s Global Thinkers for 2013. The former National Security Agency contractor who disclosed the inner workings of the U.S. intelligence operations … Continue reading →

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No Contest: Edward Snowden is Person of the Year

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Keld Bach

In an effort to gin up a bit of publicity for its annual choice for “Person of the Year,” Time has released its list of ten finalists. They include Pope Francis, President Obama, Jeff Bezos, Miley Cyrus, Ted Cruz, and … Continue reading →

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Seymour Hersh: White House Lied About Syrian Gas Attack

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Keld Bach

By Seymour M. Hersh Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he … Continue reading →

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Helen Thomas on Her One Question for Obama

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Keld Bach

White House Press Corps longest-serving member says Obama lost credibility when he dodged her question on Israeli nukes. Helen Thomas: “Jews are NOT semites, most of them came from Europe”

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Mother Agnes Mariam: In Her Own Words

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Keld Bach

By Sharmine Narwani American national security journalist Jeremy Scahill and leftist British columnist Owen Jones announced recently that they would not share a platform with a Palestinian-Lebanese nun at the Stop The War Coalition’s November 30 UK conference. Neither Scahill … Continue reading →

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Documenting History: Activist Armed with a Camera

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Keld Bach

Abby Martin talks to activist and photojournalist Jenna Pope, about her work documenting mass protests from Occupy Wall Street to Turkey. Visit her website: Jenna Pope Photography

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John Pilger: The War You Don’t See

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Keld Bach

A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current … Continue reading →

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Syria has Changed

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Keld Bach

By Thierry Meyssan While in Damascus, the Special Envoy of the Secretaries General of the Arab League and the UN, Lakhdar Brahimi, presented “his” draft peace conference project, Geneva 2. A conference whose objective would be to end the “civil … Continue reading →

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A Manifesto for the Truth by Edward Snowden

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Keld Bach

This open letter was written by Edward Snowden on November 1, 2013 in Moscow and sent to Der Spiegel staff over an encrypted channel. In a very short time, the world has learned much about unaccountable secret agencies and about … Continue reading →

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